On July 8, 2023, 21-year-old Kymani Elijah Bailey of Baltimore was shot and killed in downtown Silver Spring. The shooting occurred about 2:40 a.m. inside Public Parking Garage 3 near Thayer and Silver Spring Avenues after Bailey left a local restaurant and was walking on the garage’s first level. Montgomery County Police officers found Bailey with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from the garage and say it helped identify a suspect, 30-year-old Ramone Christopher Ramsay. Reports indicate Ramsay had been ejected from a nearby nightclub before the shooting; authorities say no prior connection between Ramsay and Bailey has been established and the motive remains unclear. An arrest warrant charging Ramsay with first-degree murder and related offenses was later served and he was taken into custody on July 12, 2023.

If anyone saw activity in or near Parking Garage 3 that night, or has information about Bailey’s movements that evening, please come forward.